The ancient Egyptians called the region of the heavens of which Orion is a part, and which appears to be the pattern for the ground at Giza, the Duat. It was a very important place for them, and they believed that the soul was taken there after death. But this Duat was seen not only as a region of the sky but also as a parallel universe where the soul had to undergo tests and judgment, says Graham Hancock, a place where we cannot escape the truth, where everything we have done and said in our life is examined and judged.

"This place was regarded as a narrow corridor that sometimes ended in a gallery. I think it´s no coincidence that images of these corridors and galleries have a certain resemblance to the corridors and Grand Gallery in the Great Pyramid at Giza. In my opinion, the monuments at Giza were built not as graves for the pharoahs but as a place to prepare for the soul´s journey after death to the Duat. Somewhat like a huge three-dimensional game where the initiates submitted themselves to tests -- maybe in total darkness, maybe for many days, and with powerful alterations in mental states -- to raise and strengthen their consciousness and to prepare themselves for the challenges of death so that when death came, the individual would not become confused and get lost in the Duat, in the life after this one," says Hancock.

What might most characterize the Duat is duality -- everything is double. "As above, so below," as the ancient hermetic texts put it. If we are to understand the monuments of ancient Egypt, we have to think in dualistic terms first. We have to think in terms of heaven and earth exactly the way the ancient Egyptians did, Hancock maintains.

[What is below is similar to what is above, and what is above is similar to what is below, in order to ensure the perpetuation of the miracles of the Unique Thing]

- Classical latin translation from the text of the Emerald Tablets of Hermes Trismegistus

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Duat

The body of Osiris was safely installed in the "House of Sokar", and the spiritualized form of Osiris was freed to  depart to the sky and established the 'Duat'.   The land of Sokar occupies the Fifth Division of the Duat, and the center of the Fifth Division is called Rostau  "Underworld"/"Netherworld" / The cosmic 'world of the dead'.    Has something to do with some kind of a "stargate" / "timegate"

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